Cheese-vat operator



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C. M. VILKINS, OF TEST ANDO'VER, OHIO.

CHEESE-VAT OPERATOR.

Specication of Letters `Patent No. 31,925, dated April 2, 1861.

To allwhom it mag/concern tipping them, for wheying o, the end of Be it known that I, C. M. IVILKINS, of theleyer being secured to the floor by the I/Vest Andover, in the county of Ashtabula pivot Joint M, allowing it to be drawn backand State of Ohio, have invented certain ward r forward in a right line, with the 55 new and useful Improvements in Gheeseends of the vats. l

Vats; and I do hereby declare that the fol- N, is a clutch reaching over the lever,

lowing is a full and complete description of thereby holding the upper end securely, and

the construction and Operation of the same, serving as a slide through which the edge of reference being had to the accompanying the lever moves to the right or left. The po- 60 l0 drawings, making a part of this specificasition of the lever is shown in Figs. l and 2, tion, in whichwhich holds the vat in a horizontal position. Figure l is a perspective view, Fig. 2 is a On changing the position of the lever by front end view, Fig. 3 is a longitudinal verdrawing it to the right, by. the handle, the

tical section. en d of the vat is tipped upward, b y the in- 65 i5 Like letters refer to like parts in the difcllnatlon of the angle N, of the lever; from ferent views. a line with the end of the vat, as indicated My improvement relates to the arrangeby the dotted line P, in Fig. 3. The position ment of certain devices, in combination with of the lever is also shown by the dotted line a cheese vat, by the means of which the said P', in Fig. 2, when the vat is tipped. 70 vat may be the more easily and with greater In the ordinary way, this tipping of the facility tipped fOr the purpose of wheying vat, for the purpose of wheying olf, is ato tended, with much difliculty and labor. A, Fig. l, is the floor or platform upon Vats usually havesiX legs, one pair at which the vat stands, and to which it is sethe end, being swing legs, itoften happens 75 cured. on account of the great weight of the vats B, is the inilk vat placed or hung by the occasioned by their being iilled with water rim D, in the frame E. and for that reason, the swing legs cannot F, is the water vat in which the milk be easily removed, owing to the floor having vat B, is suspended by the frame E. sprung beneath the central pair of legs, by 80 ,It will be perceived that the water vat is a the greater weight of the vats at that point, little longer than' the milk vat, causing therehence the swinging legs bind upon the floor, by a space or opening Gr, at the end of the and as before stated, it sometimes requires vat. This space is for the purpose of pourmuch labor to remove them, but in my aring in the water by which the milk is to be rangement, this diiiiculty is obviated, for 85 t heated. The milk vat is attached to the the vats are as easily tipped when full, as

water vat, by the hinge I-I, Fig. 3, which jhey are when empty.

joint admits 0f the milk vat being turned The space or opening Gr, as indicated is up, 1n order to give access to the water for one of peculiar advantage, for the filling of cleansing or other purposes. 'the water vat. In the ordinary vat this is 90 40 I, I, are hooks by which the two vat-s are accomplished by the means of a funnel, but i held together. by this arrangement, it is effected with J, J, are rockers or legs upon which the greater ease and facility, besides its being a vats are supported, the ends being pinned greater convenience, and as cheap, for a vat to the floor A, by the pins K, K, which pass constructed in this manner. costs but little 95 through the anges constituting the rim of more, than an ordinary vat, the'ditference of the rockers or legs. The pins by their not expense being met by the additional expense fitting tightly in the flanges, allow the legs of a funnel. a rocking movement, at the same tiinepre- The peculiar advantages then, of my vat venting them from sliding in any direction. over others are: first, the greater ease and 100 L, is the sliding lever and handle, by facility of -tipping it, for the purposel of which the vats are held in position, andfor wheying off, and secondly, the greater con- Venience of filling the Water vat, by means of f with the hinged lever L, operating as and the opening caused by the Water vat being for the purpose specified.

constructed of greater length, than the milk van l C. M. VVILKINS. 5 What I claim as my improvement and fle- Writ-messes:

sire to secure by Letters Patent is- SELA C. MERRELL,

The hinged rockers J, J, in combination B. F. PERRY. 

